Should You Have a Legal Agreement with Your Podcast Co-Host?

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A question I see come up a lot

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is if you're starting a podcast with a friend

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and they're gonna be a co-host,

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should you put a legal agreement in place.

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After all, they're your friends, so you'd hope that nothing goes wrong.

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But we all know that isn't always the case, unfortunately.

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So yes, I would recommend that if you're about to start a podcast with your friend

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and they're going to be a co-host

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and you're going to be responsible for different things,

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it's definitely worth getting a legal agreement in place.

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It doesn't have to be super technical or full of legal jargon,

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but definitely something that makes it easy to understand

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and clear as to who's responsible for what.

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So if one person's paying for all the podcast hosting and marketing

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and the other person's paying for all the editing, etc,

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it's clear what that role is.

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That way, if you ever do go your own way,

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there's no grey area about what part of the podcast

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belongs to each other.

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Not only will it make it easy to either close

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the podcast down or start a new podcast altogether,

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but it should keep your friendship intact too.

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A great resource for this is Gordon Firemark,

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whose got a lot of templates you can use,

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as well as resources and insights

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into the legal side of podcasting.

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And I'll leave a link to Gordon's website in the show notes.

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